Gays try to throw the canard that their cause is the same as the blacks and the Civil Rights Movement.......skin color is a characteristic, sexuality is a chosen behavior....big difference, therefore they are not the same thing.
It doesn’t matter if there is a difference or not. The government should not have the power to force businesses to serve anyone. It undermines a key tenant of the free market. If Resort A refuses to serve a group of people, they will flock to Resort B, which will serve them. It looks like healthy competition to me.
Yeah, I’ve never known about someone having to “come out” about the fact that they are black myself. There is no practical way to conceal or discover your skin color. You can see from your earliest days that there is a difference in how your skin is compared to other people. It’s way different from figuring out who you have an inclination to become intimate with.
True, but the hotel should have the right to refuse to marry an interracial couple as well as a gay couple. Would that make them bigots if they refused to? Certainly. But that should be their right, appalling as it seems. The Civil Rights Act of 64 was meant to apply to hotel accommodations (ie a black couple traveling the interstate at night, needing a place to stay). You can't discriminate against the black couple who wants a hotel room if you're a hotel owner. That's a different situation from what we have here. Service providers should not be forced into accepting things that they disagree with.
P.S. — I’m sure the Wildflower Inn wouldn’t have a problem renting a room to the two brides. What upsets the owners is the idea that they are forced to host a marriage ceremony that contradicts their deeply-held religious convictions.